According to the World Bank, in 2010 the female population in the United States accounted for 50.7% of the total population, which made the United States tied for fifty-ninth in that category with Eritrea, Central African Republic, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Benin, Mexico, Belize, and the Kyrgyz Republic. Latvia and Ukraine ranked first, with females accounting for 54.0% of their total populations.
According to the OECD, the United States mean age of women who are having their first child is 25.00 years old. That’s enough for the U.S. to rank sixth in that category. Mexico ranks first with a mean age of 21.30 years old.
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Mark Rice note: The U.S. does not rank 6th in the world; it ranks 6th among the OECD nations.
According to Save the Children’s publication, State of the World’s Mothers 2010, the United States ranks twenty-third out of forty-three “more developed countries” in the “Women’s Index” ranking. The top ten countries are:
According to Save the Children’s publication, State of the World’s Mothers 2010, the United States ranks twentieth eighth out of forty-three “more developed countries” in its “Mothers’ Index” ranking. The top ten countries are:
According to Save the Children, in 2010 women in the United States earned, on average, 62% of what men earned, a ratio that makes the United States tied for fifty-sixth (with Switzerland) in that category. Mozambique ranks first, with women earning 90% of what men earned.
According to Olympic.org, American women have won three of the sixteen gold medals awarded in the Olympic women’s giant slalom, which is enough to make the United States tied for first with Switzerland in that category.
According to the Gallup Organization, 64% of American women report feeling safe walking alone at night. That is enough to make the United States tied for thirty-first with Canada and Germany out of one-hundred-and-five countries ranked in that category. Singapore ranks first, with 98% of women reporting feeling safe walking alone at night.
According to the International Centre for Prison Studies, 8.8% of all prison inmates in the United States are female, which makes the United States rank twenty-fourth out of two hundred countries ranked in that category. Monaco ranks first, with 22.2% of its prisoners being female.
According to the World Bank, 58.9% of all American women over the age of fifteen were in the labor force in 2008, which makes the United States rank sixtieth out of one-hundred-eighty-four countries ranked in that category. Burundi ranks first at 91.0%.
According to Olympic.org, American women have won two gold medals in discus throwing in the summer Olympics, which is enough to make the United States rank third out of the seventeen countries who have won gold medals in that event. The Soviet Union/Russia and East Germany/Germany are tied for first at five gold medals each.
